Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community

National Building Museum, 2005

This award-winning exhibition explores the rich and unique history of the Washington-area Jewish community from 1795 to today through historical photographs, oral histories, community scrapbooks, and rare archival materials.

Jewish Life in Mr. Lincoln’s City

All images: Washington Hebrew Congregation, 2007

One of the most important events in our nation's history, the Civil War forever altered American life. Washington and Alexandria were sites of intense activity. This original exhibition tells stories of Jewish life in Civil-War Washington and across the river in Alexandria.

Mounted as part of national celebrations of Lincoln's bicentennial in 2009, this exhibition includes images from our collections, supplemented by photographs from the Library of Congress and other local repositories.

Read Eugene L. Meyer's review
"The exhibit...tells of a city and country divided and in turmoil through the prism of the small but growing Jewish community here."

Voices of the Vigil: D.C.‘s Soviet Jewry Movement

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 2014

This award-winning exhibition tells the story of our community's role in the struggle for freedom for Soviet Jewry. In addition to holding a 20-year daily vigil across the street from the Soviet Embassy, Washington Jews organized rallies and marches, waged letter-writing campaigns to pressure politicians, sent packages and holiday greetings to refuseniks, and visited Jews in the Soviet Union.

Components

30 Sintra panels (30"x72")
May be hung or stood up with provided easel backs

Half a Day on Sunday: Jewish-Owned “Mom and Pop” Grocery Stores

Through the Lens: Jeremy Goldberg’s Washington

John A. Wilson District Building, 2009

This exhibition charts the growth and change in Washington's Jewish community through its buildings. Lifelong Washington resident and amateur photographer Jerry Goldberg "biked the sites," photographing the synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in the city he called home. Panels include Goldberg's photographs along with historic photographs of more than 20 sites. Co-sponsored with Tifereth Israel Congregation.

Ties that Bind: Washington-Area Jews and the Birth of the State of Israel

Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, 2010

This exhibition chronicles the involvement of the Washington Jewish community in the struggle for Jewish statehood. The exhibition begins with the story of a mass rally at Constitution Hall where over 4,000 Washingtonians – both Jewish and non-Jewish – staged a show of support for open immigration to Palestine in 1938. Secret meetings and gunrunning to fund the Haganah are also revealed. The triumph of 1948 and the work to build the infrastructure of Israel are then explored.

“Don’t Whisper a Prayer, Sing Aloud a Song of Peace”: Yitzhak Rabin in Washington

Leah Rabin visiting the exhibition in West Bloomfield, Michigan, 1997

The world remembers Yitzhak Rabin as a former general who exchanged his military uniform for a diplomat's suit and as the Prime Minister who gave his life to further the peace process.

The exhibition consists of twenty-five framed photographs with accompanying labels. The photographs chronicle Rabin's life and work in the nation's capital where he served as Israel's Ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973. Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Israel.